Without the Island, you can't do anything; so you lose. Without the Cloud Sprite, you can't win; so you lose. If your opponent matches your Cloud Sprite with their Raging Goblin, you lose if you don't Unsummon it at least once while it is attacking.
As you are well aware, this is an example of a moment in a game of Magic. Games are very different yet are kind of similar in a way. This conundrum has a second clause: (Prerequisite: each player untaps their stuff at the beginning of each turn and draws one card each turn- you knew that)
A player must invest a card and/or the untap of a creature/land (all of which are henceforth deemed 'resources') to subtract the other player's cards and/or life total. At the smallest amount of 'resource', a unit of 'resource' either subtracts from the other player's cards or their life total. Remember that I am speaking on the fundamental levels. The same goes for adding cards/life to you.
Magic is so cleverly and beautifully designed with the interactions between cards; and so the card game is indeed a card game. With the previous two clauses we have the last:
Each of your cards are necessary to for you to win. Same for the opponent. All cards are lost/neutralized when each player has each card. So there forms a synchronized cycle between both players. Everything evens out. If you were to Ancestral Recall to get to your cards faster/sooner than your opponent, you would have an unmatched Cloud Sprite or an additional Unsummon, ultimately causing you to win.
Another way to phrase above is that the Ancestral Recall drew into your (addition) Island, Cloud Sprite, and Unsummon that are necessary to win. So, people beg the question, which card won you the game? OR which card is better? It is a divine mystery. The Storm Crow trollers may unknowingly speak an ancient truth.
I personally belong to the religion of card draw, for it does not matter whether or not your library has the cards to win unless you draw into them.
Apparently there is confusion as to why this is part of the power nine. As I understand it, the power nine are the nine cards to include in almost every deck to make them more powerful. This is included in that list because, seriously, you can splash blue dual lands to give yourself 2 "free" cards. Of the 9, Timetwister is probably the most questionable, since some decks are really bummed to see their graveyard shuffled into their deck. But there's little doubt that all 9 are absolutely bonkers. And if I fed the troll, oops, my bad :P
mrbgddy
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
If you're the idiot who gave this card less than a 5-star rating, immediately build a bonfire, pick up your entire collection of cards, and toss tham in said bonfire quickly...you have no concept of this game whatsoever!!
Gishra
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Could see someone giving this less than a 5 because they think it is TOO powerful and unbalances games in which it is played... rating doesn't necessarily have to be how powerful you think the card is. But yeah, if they give it less than a five because they don't see why it's so powerful then they got some learnin' to do.
ZombieSnail
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
@Enchantment_Removal, that's the greatest comment I've ever read. Anything from me would only be less profound, not that this card needs it anyway. The guy in the art is realizing how far ahead he is in the game, and is thankful he didn't run healing salve instead.
Lateralis0ne
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Enchantment_Removal just one the internet. All of it.
And I think he should get a special proxy Black Lotus for that comment.
I feel transfigured now.
I'm off to build a deck.
Hoonster
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Hmm . . draw 3 for 1 mana? Perfectly reasonable.
Pontiac
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Hands down the most broken card of the game, Lotus is good, but there was never a time I would rather draw something else when I top decked this.
U = 3 cards at instant speed = opponent loses. (esp, if you drew a Regrowth amoung the 3)
JFM2796
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Please...don't force me to draw three cards.
LunarAvenger
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This is a joke right?? Did they forget to put in front of the ?
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I gave this a .5/5 stars because it shows how "slow" wizards are. Yes this was among the first cards, but give me a day of testing and I would put my foot down.
Im guessing they wanted to start out there business by making everyone tear threw as much booster packs as they could to get these, Time Walk and Black Lotus. Unless you like loosing to your friends who have a smug attitude while beating you with these cards. It was either you had a deck stacked (no 4 card rule) with these things or you lost, and the only way to get em was to rip someone off or tear threw more booster backs, well played.
Yeah its worth way more now, but thats just because you people cant stop tearing threw them booster packs.
AND TO THE GUYS WHO CLAIM THEY WERE UNAWARE OF HOW POWERFUL THIS WAS..... The first time you cast it you can see how good it is... they had 3 sets of testing before they released Alpha to the public. This was the only card of the 1cc spell cycle that was bumped up to rare obviously because they figured out theres no way they can keep it at common. My hunch is they just had to have that "3" cycle symmetry, or they were playing for big money. Maby a little bit of both. They played there game many times before this was launched they were well aware.
EGarrett01
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Enchantment_Removal
The answer of what card "wins you the game" becomes much clearer when we place ourselves in a two player game. Our opponent ALSO has cards that will lower our life total or draw himself extra cards. Now we can see that we win when we can UNBALANCE the situation and draw more cards or do more damage to him then he can do to us.
Thus, it becomes clear that a card that allows you to easily draw far more cards than your opponent will be the one that is most directly responsible for you being able to win.
Thus...the power of Ancestral Recall.
Ibn_Shisha
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The real conundrum:
Pick one of these up on Ebay, or put a down payment on a car?
Comments (18)
There exist an Island, Cloud Sprite, Unsummon, and this here Ancestral Recall.
Without the Island, you can't do anything; so you lose.
Without the Cloud Sprite, you can't win; so you lose.
If your opponent matches your Cloud Sprite with their Raging Goblin, you lose if you don't Unsummon it at least once while it is attacking.
As you are well aware, this is an example of a moment in a game of Magic. Games are very different yet are kind of similar in a way. This conundrum has a second clause: (Prerequisite: each player untaps their stuff at the beginning of each turn and draws one card each turn- you knew that)
A player must invest a card and/or the untap of a creature/land (all of which are henceforth deemed 'resources') to subtract the other player's cards and/or life total.
At the smallest amount of 'resource', a unit of 'resource' either subtracts from the other player's cards or their life total. Remember that I am speaking on the fundamental levels. The same goes for adding cards/life to you.
Magic is so cleverly and beautifully designed with the interactions between cards; and so the card game is indeed a card game. With the previous two clauses we have the last:
Each of your cards are necessary to for you to win. Same for the opponent. All cards are lost/neutralized when each player has each card. So there forms a synchronized cycle between both players. Everything evens out.
If you were to Ancestral Recall to get to your cards faster/sooner than your opponent, you would have an unmatched Cloud Sprite or an additional Unsummon, ultimately causing you to win.
Another way to phrase above is that the Ancestral Recall drew into your (addition) Island, Cloud Sprite, and Unsummon that are necessary to win.
So, people beg the question, which card won you the game? OR which card is better?
It is a divine mystery. The Storm Crow trollers may unknowingly speak an ancient truth.
I personally belong to the religion of card draw, for it does not matter whether or not your library has the cards to win unless you draw into them.
And if I fed the troll, oops, my bad :P
Anything from me would only be less profound, not that this card needs it anyway.
The guy in the art is realizing how far ahead he is in the game, and is thankful he didn't run healing salve instead.
And I think he should get a special proxy Black Lotus for that comment.
I feel transfigured now.
I'm off to build a deck.
U = 3 cards at instant speed = opponent loses. (esp, if you drew a Regrowth amoung the 3)
Im guessing they wanted to start out there business by making everyone tear threw as much booster packs as they could to get these, Time Walk and Black Lotus. Unless you like loosing to your friends who have a smug attitude while beating you with these cards. It was either you had a deck stacked (no 4 card rule) with these things or you lost, and the only way to get em was to rip someone off or tear threw more booster backs, well played.
Yeah its worth way more now, but thats just because you people cant stop tearing threw them booster packs.
AND TO THE GUYS WHO CLAIM THEY WERE UNAWARE OF HOW POWERFUL THIS WAS.....
The first time you cast it you can see how good it is... they had 3 sets of testing before they released Alpha to the public. This was the only card of the 1cc spell cycle that was bumped up to rare obviously because they figured out theres no way they can keep it at common. My hunch is they just had to have that "3" cycle symmetry, or they were playing for big money. Maby a little bit of both. They played there game many times before this was launched they were well aware.
The answer of what card "wins you the game" becomes much clearer when we place ourselves in a two player game. Our opponent ALSO has cards that will lower our life total or draw himself extra cards. Now we can see that we win when we can UNBALANCE the situation and draw more cards or do more damage to him then he can do to us.
Thus, it becomes clear that a card that allows you to easily draw far more cards than your opponent will be the one that is most directly responsible for you being able to win.
Thus...the power of Ancestral Recall.
Pick one of these up on Ebay, or put a down payment on a car?